I'm facing a problem,i don't know if i should buy the silver licence or keep the free version in my company. We Bought 5 UPS EATON 5PX (with a Network card) in order to protect physical servers with VMware running on them (ESXi). Is it possible to install IPP on each VM (CentOS/Windows) for free or should i buy the silver licence ?

At last i want to shutdown properly VM and servers when the UPS is under 40%.

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If you want to gracefully shutdown the VMs without an specific order, you can use Intelligent Power Manager (IPM free license) and create a shutdown policy with the remaining capacity limit of 40% and the associated action to "shutdown the VMs first then host"

On the other hand, if you need to trigger some action into a specific VM, then you will need the license.

Thank you for your answer. So if i sum up : with IPM i can shutdown the VMs first then the host if the UPS capacity reach 40% for free but if i want to do a specific action into a specific VM i can't without the license ?

You helped me a lot but i will have a last question. i have already configured network cards in my 5 EATON 5PX and they are currently protecting ESXi servers. I have the installation disk of the Free version of IPM and IPP but, i don't understand if i should only install IPM on a physical server running ESXi or if i should install IPP on every VMs of each servers and install IPM on a monitoring computer.

Don't worry, IPM is a very powerful software with as much configuration as customer can imagine.

I recommend you to donwload the latest version of IPM from the web and either install it on a physical or virtual server. Once it is done,on IPM "settings" go to "system" and enable "Infrastructure connectors"

By default, Automatic scan is enabled, so you should be able to see UPSs on IPM.

After that, add a new connector (vCenter or ESXi depending on your installation). At this point, you just need to create the Configuration policy and the action linked to protect your system.

IPM will send the command to the vCenter or ESXi to gracefully shutdown the VMs. Once all the VMs are shutdown, IPM will shutdown the ESXi. No need to install IPP on the VMs.

Since this is a discussion about the licenses for IPM, I have a question:

Why is the license for a Silver license so extremely expensive? I mean, we are talking about several thousand dollars.

To go from using the free license to only control my 2 ESXi hosts and 2 Eaton 9130RMs for free to being able to control the 2 ESXi hosts, 2 Eaton 9130RMs, 11 VMs, 3 physical servers and 2 PDUs costs about $3,000.

In what lifetime does that make any sense?

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